Double wedding ring star quilt

                                    Just finished this quilt. Took me about 6 months to do it

                                                 Quilting took a few weeks. Here is a detail.

deck garden

Things are blooming on my deck

And Merlin is enjoying some sunshine -
Morning nap                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Afternoon nap

Slough

I took this picture of Catching Slough near my house a few years ago on a morning walk. Thought I had lost the photo when my computer crashed but found a hard copy yesterday when I cleaned out a cabinet. If you look real close, there is an egret on the right tip of land jutting out into the water.

pine needle basket #3

Just finished this pine needle basket. I tried a different stitch and it was working until I got further apart with the stitches. The needles began sticking out more and more. So I changed stitches to an X. Parts of it look better than others, but I really like the base that I found online.

Pine needle bowl

I just finished my second pine needle basket - I think it is really a bowl. Read in a booklet that one could finish them with Mod Podge, so I tried it. REALLY SMELLY!!!! But it made the bowl very sturdy. Now all I need to do is figure out how to make them perfectly round.

wedding ring quilt

Getting ready to do some quilting.

Didn't work ....have to take my machine in to be fixed :(

Now I find out it was the thread-cannot use cotton to do free motion quilting, have to use polyester.

2015 project

In 2015, I made this soft book with the contributions from a few friends. We made a list of things and each person took a few and made blocks. I filled in some things to add and turned it into a book rather than a quilt.

Where I've been
What I like
Things I've done

1949 to 1969- names of places I lived (towns, streets)

Pansies and cats

Photography
1970's- 1980's - places (towns, streets)

Aikido
I like to read SiFi and fantasy

Chocolate
Marriage

Artists I like
Bellydancing (did it for a few years)

Italy (Lived there for a year)
Redwoods, California poppies

Massage therapist
spinning, weaving, crochet

Quilting and Sewing

1990's onward (countries, states)
genealogy

Acupuncture
Who contributed